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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]21st century Jim Crow (separate and unequal) in full effect.
Yeah you're a citizen and you've got freedom and rights in theory but you're poor and in all likelihood a minority so we'll just amend those freedoms and rights as we see fit since in reality you're not a full-fledged citizen.
Gotta love it.[/quote]

Here's a different angle on this discussion.  Fundamentally it's more about money than it is about rights.  You have the rights and freedoms to swim laps in a banana cream pie 8 feet wide if you want to.  IF you can afford it.   You shouldn't have an expectation of taxpayers to cough up the money for your pie-sloshing frivolity.  Similarly, it should never be your expectation to just pop out a bunch of babies when you have no means of support, and just expect the taxpayer to take care of your irresponsible frivolity there either.  Just because you have the right to have babies doesn't mean you have some kind of God-given right to receive taxpayer money to help support them.  And if you do receive money, why shouldn't there be preconditions on it?  There are routinely preconditions on receiving money - when you borrow money for a home mortgage there are terms and conditions you must agree to in order to receive the money.  Don't agree and you don't get the money.  Screw up, and the deal is revoked.  When organizations apply for grants, there are terms and conditions they must agree to in order to receive the money, and so on.  Why should this be any different?  [b]Why should it be free money with no strings attached [/b]in this case?  Why not have people agree to programs that would put them on a path to better economic and family stability as terms and conditions for receiving the money?  [/quote]

Food stamps, housing, Medicaid.

Please cite the welfare programs that hand out money "for free without strings attached" and that increase the more children the recipient has.[/quote][/quote]

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